[Qgis-developer] Funding projects

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi, 

I believe that a small thing that we could do and which would already
help is to maintain a list of current projects that need funding - and
add the contact information of the developer, who wants to work on it.
Maybe we could re-use the QEPs and publish a list of current QEPs and
add financial/contact information. And then delegate all the financials
to the dev. In addition, we could advertise these projects on social
media and amont the local QGIS user groups. The dev can then decide
whether he wants to deal with really small donations or whether he wants
to set a minimum amount to contributions. 

It would be a simple and effective way to make such projects more
visible to the public, while not adding a lot of bureaucracy. 

Also - if we would do all the financials through QGIS.ORG it would mean
a lot of work for me and we'd have to deal with tax issues, different
country laws, etc. - something I would like to avoid. And in general the
targetted donations would usually not meet the overall target, etc. It
is better if the dev who wants to work on an improvement would deal with
such issues. 

Andreas 

On 2016-10-06 09:05, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

> Il 06/10/2016 07:37, Neumann, Andreas ha scritto:
> 
>> So far, our (QGIS.ORG/QGIS-CH) financial resources for 2016 are
>> exhausted. Of course, if someone wants to work on this on his free time
>> or finds another sponsor, it would be very nice if this could make it
>> into QGIS 3.x rather sooner than later.
> 
> Sorry to hijack this thread. Should we resurrect the discussion about
> setting up targeted donations for specific projects?
> All the best.

  
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